The Papacy, Frederick II and Communal Devotion in Medieval Italy

The twenty-five essays in this volume - four of which are published here for the first time - represent the work of a great scholar in Mediterranean history. In an age often called that of papal monarchy and secular-minded rulers, Powell found popes with complex agendas and extensive pastoral concerns, a rather more Christian Frederick II, the mechanics of the Fifth Crusade, the sermons of the devout urban layman Albertanus of Brescia, and Muslims under Christian rule.